Other factors that increase the risk of someone developing an ulcer complication while taking an NSAID include:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u2013\u00a0 a prior history of an ulcer- use of blood thinners such as<\/p>\n
\u2013\u00a0 Coumadin<\/p>\n
\u2013\u00a0 use of anti-platelet medications such as Plavix<\/p>\n
\u2013\u00a0 age greater than 60<\/p>\n
\u2013\u00a0 use of steroids such as prednisone<\/p>\n
\u2013\u00a0 current ulcer symptoms such as indigestion<\/p>\n
If you have any of the above risk factors, you should talk to your doctor about protecting<\/em> your stomach<\/strong> from ulcers before starting long-term therapy with an NSAID. Depending on your condition and what NSAID you are taking, your doctor may suggest a limited course of medication called a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) such as Prilosec, Prevacid or Nexium while you are taking the NSAID.<\/p>\nYour doctor may consider testing you for the bacteria H pylori before beginning NSAIDs and, if positive, treating you for that.<\/p>\n
In summary<\/strong>, if you need to take an NSAID long term, use one that is relatively safe (such as ibuprofen) at the lowest dose needed to control your symptoms, for the shortest duration possible. If you have any of the risk factors listed above, talk to your doctor about taking a PPI during the duration of NSAID therapy to decrease your risk of developing an ulcer complication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Updated <\/a>2.24.2022] The two most common causes of stomach and duodenal ulcers are a bacteria called Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) and the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs), which include aspirin. Let’s look at the use of NSAIDs and how to protect your stomach from their harmful effects. NSAIDs are medications used to relieve pain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":127645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,326],"tags":[249,257,349,46],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130066,"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/130066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}